Equity & Access

Podcast: Nick Donohue on Promoting Racial Equity & Fighting Personal, Institutional and Structural Racism

[…] Deputy Commissioner, then to Commissioner in New Hampshire. A dozen years ago, Nick took over the Nellie Mae Education Foundation where he developed a strategy focused on student-centered learning. The team’s focus on personalized learning, student agency, progress on mastery, and anywhere-anytime learning was about 10 years ahead of the sector. And now, the […]

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Rebecca Wolfe and Ryan MacDonald on Educator Competencies

[…] Getting Smart Podcast, Rebecca Midles (@AKRebecca) sits down with Rebecca Wolfe (@rewolfe13), Vice President of Impact and Improvement at Knowledgeworks, and Ryan MacDonald, Senior Program Associate on the Student-Centered Learning team at the Council of Chief State School Officers. They discuss the updated version of the Educator Competencies for Personalized, Learner-Centered Environments, a new customizable toolkit and […]

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Portrait of an Educator

[…] guide educator development. The intent is to enable a growing number of teachers to implement and scale up a transformation of their classrooms into places of personalized, student-centered learning. Unique Callout: Need to Reflect Learn More Listen to Podcast Lindsey Look Fors The effort aligned the Portrait of a Student with a Portrait of […]

Future of Learning

Podcast: Dr. Scott McLeod on Harnessing Technology for Deeper Learning

[…] how laws are made, to  finding something that should be fixed and go hack at it.” McLeod is optimistic about more schools taking on the challenge of student-centered active learning. Key Takeaways: How did Scott become a middle school teacher in Charlotte? Why did Scott get his Ph.D. at Iowa? Why has the shift […]

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100 Days of Conversation Project and The Importance of Community Agreements

[…] the continued emphasis on student voice. You won’t want to miss this one! Let’s listen in. 100 Days of Conversation is a community revisioning process that is student-centered. It is a collaboration of the Local Voices Network, ReinvisionEd and the Human Restoration Project. This collaborative helps to facilitate conversations in communities between educators, young […]

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Leadership

EduCatered: Heidi Alexander

[…] keeps ASU Prep Academy at the center of their community.  Let’s listen in as they talk about food, belonging and how to best communicate with families.  On Student-Centered I want the children to see themselves right in the curriculum, on the walls, all over their learning environment and I also want them to see […]

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EduCatered: Adrianna Caton

[…] A World of Education – a thought leadership company.  Adrianna formerly has spent time in the classroom in a handful of cities including Tacoma, Seattle, Baltimore and more, and is particularly focused on project-based learning and student-centered learning.   Links:  LinkedIn Publishing Party Chris Emdin on STEM, STEAM, Make Dream Liz Kleinrock Teach and Transform Instagram

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